Interstellar was launched. During a final workshop at the British Interplanetary Society in October 2013 a team from the WARR student group of the Technical University of Munich under the leadership of Andreas Hein was nominated as the winner. Icarus Firefly, one of the competing designs, was latter sufficiently developed to be presented as an article in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 2019 Project review The supervision of the project by Icarus Interstellar ended in 2019, after failing to produce a workable, updated starship design. However, many papers were published as elements of the project, and the state of the art of Interstellar travel was advanced. A review of the project was published in 2020. A number of members moved on to I4IS, the Initiative for Interstellar Studies or to Breakthrough Starshot. Project Icarus remains a British Interplanetary Society project, but has seen little activity since 2019. Former Team members The Project Team was worldwide group made up of volunteers who were members of Icarus Interstellar or of the British Interplanetary Society. It had some notable members such as: Dr. Stephen Baxter, the renowned science fiction author who is one of the designers Dr. Vint Cerf, the American internet pioneer who is one of the project consultants See also Breakthrough Starshot Interstellar travel Nuclear pulse propulsion Project Daedalus Project Longshot Spacecraft propulsion References External links Icarus Interstellar website, for updates and information about Project Icarus An article in The Atlantic with more information and an interview with Andreas Tziolas (a team member in the project) Project Daedalus Symposium Centauri Dreams—Icarus: Revisiting the Daedalus Starship SPACE.com—Futuristic Interstellar Space Probe Idea Revisited by Leonard David, 7 May 2010 The Tau Zero Foundation Interstellar travel Icarus